Song Sung Blue

[3] In addition, "Song Sung Blue" spent seven weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart.

[4] Both awards that year were won by Roberta Flack's rendition of Ewan MacColl's song, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".

"[5] Record World said that it has "simply some of the best and most commercial soft sounds on the contemporary scene.

"[6] Diamond described "Song Sung Blue" in the liner notes to his 1996 compilation album, In My Lifetime, as a "very basic message, unadorned.

British new wave group Altered Images released a version in 1982 on the album Pinky Blue.